Faculty Profiles - SONE, Hirohito

Skipping breakfast, late-night eating and current smoking are associated with medication adherence in Japanese patients with diabetes. Reviewed International journal

Yuta Yaguchi, Kazuya Fujihara, Mayuko Harada Yamada, Yasuhiro Matsubayashi, Masaru Kitazawa, Taeko Osawa, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masanori Kaneko, Nauta Yamanaka, Hiroyasu Seida, Satoru Kodama, Hirohito Sone

Primary care diabetes 14 ( 6 ) 753 - 759 2020.12

Authorship：Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

AIMS: Little is known about the relationship between medication adherence for oral hypoglycemic agents (OHAs) and glycemic control after adjusting healthy adherer effect in large scale study. Thus, adjusting for health-related behaviors, we investigated the clinical variables associated with medication adherence and the relationship between medication adherence and glycemic control using a large claims database. METHODS: Analyzed were 8805 patients with diabetes whose medication records for OHA were available for at least 1year. Medication adherence was evaluated by the proportion of days covered (PDC). Multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify clinical variables significantly associated with non-adherence. Multiple regression analysis evaluated the relationship between PDC and HbA1c after adjusting for health-related behaviors. RESULTS: Mean PDC was 80.1% and 32.8% of patients were non-adherence. Logistic analysis indicated that older age and taking concomitant medications were significantly associated with adherence while skipping breakfast (odds ratio 0.66 [95% CI 0.57-0.76]), late-night eating (0.86 [0.75-0.98]), and current smoking (0.89 [0.80-0.99]) were significantly associated with non-adherence. CONCLUSIONS: Skipping breakfast, late-night eating and current smoking were significantly associated with medication adherence, suggesting that clinicians pay attention to those health-related behaviors to achieve good medication adherence.

DOI： 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.05.002

Marker chromosome is a strong poor prognosis factor after allogeneic HSCT for adverse-risk AML patients. Reviewed International journal

Kyoko Fuse, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yasuhiko Shibasaki, Tatsuo Furukawa, Miwako Narita, Hirohito Sone, Masayoshi Masuko

European journal of haematology 105 ( 5 ) 616 - 625 2020.11

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

INTRODUCTION: Chromosome analysis is necessary for the risk classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Marker chromosome (MC) is a fragmented chromosome whose origin cannot be identified from other chromosomes and originates from marked genomic instability. Although AML with MC (MC+) has a poor prognosis even after intensive chemotherapy, its influence on the outcome after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is unclear. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 162 AML patients after allo-HSCT. To evaluate the significance of MC, we compared it with other chromosomal abnormalities. RESULT: Marker chromosome was detected in 14 (8.6%, MC+) patients (vs MC-, n = 158). The 2-year overall survival (OS) in MC+ vs MC- was 26.8% vs 62.2% (P = .0098). The 2-year cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) in MC+ vs MC- was 80.4% vs 35.5% (P = .0004). Among adverse-risk AML (AD-AML, n = 36), AD-AML/MC+ (n = 11) demonstrated a poorer 2-year OS (9.1%, vs AD-AML/MC- n = 25, 58.3%, P = .0031) and higher 2-year CIR (89.6%, vs AD-AML/MC- 44.7%, P = .002). In multivariate analysis, MC (HR 3.08, 95% CI; 1.02-9.29, P = .046) and HCT-CI (HR 3.23, 95% CI; 1.00-10.4, P = .049) were independent risk factors for CIR among AD-AML. CONCLUSION: Our study suggests MC as a new independent factor for chromosome risk classification to further classify AD-AML.

DOI： 10.1111/ejh.13495

Network Meta-Analysis of Drug Therapies for Lowering Uric Acid and Mortality Risk in Patients with Heart Failure. Reviewed International journal

Satoru Kodama, Kazuya Fujihara, Chika Horikawa, Mayuko Yamada, Takaaki Sato, Yuta Yaguchi, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaru Kitazawa, Yasuhiro Matsubayashi, Takaho Yamada, Kenichi Watanabe, Hirohito Sone

Cardiovascular drugs and therapy 35 ( 6 ) 1217 - 1225 2020.10

Authorship：Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Springer Science and Business Media LLC

PURPOSE: This network meta-analysis aimed to assess the current efficacy of decreasing the uric acid (UA) level with drugs to reduce mortality in patients with heart failure (HF). METHODS: Electronic literature searches using EMBASE and MEDLINE of studies published from 1 Jan 1950 to 26 Dec 2019 were conducted for randomized controlled trials or non-randomized cohort studies that included at least one group of patients who took UA-lowering drugs and with a study outcome of all-cause mortality. A random-effects network meta-analysis was performed within a frequentist framework. Hierarchy of treatments was expressed as the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) value, which is in proportion to mean rank (best is 100%). RESULTS: Nine studies, which included seven different types of groups, were eligible for analysis. The "untreated uricemia" group in which patients had hyperuricemia but without treatment had a significantly higher risk of mortality than the "no uricemia" group in which patients had no hyperuricemia (relative risk (RR)(95% confidence interval (CI), 1.43 (1.08-1.89)). The "start-allo" group wherein patients started to take allopurinol did not have a significantly lower risk of mortality than the "untreated uricemia" group (RR (95% CI), 0.68 (0.45-1.01)). However, in the "start-allo" group the SUCRA value was comparable to that in the "no uricemia" group (SUCRA: 65.4% for "start-allo"; 64.1% for "no uricemia"). CONCLUSIONS: Results suggested that allopurinol therapy was not associated with a significantly improved prognosis in terms of mortality but could potentially counteract the adverse effects associated with longstanding hyperuricemia in HF patients.

DOI： 10.1007/s10557-020-07097-4

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A Prospective Cohort Study of Muscular and Performance Fitness and Incident Glaucoma: The Niigata Wellness Study. Reviewed International journal

Ryoko Kawakami, Yuko Gando, Kiminori Kato, Susumu S Sawada, Haruki Momma, Motohiko Miyachi, I-Min Lee, Steven N Blair, Minoru Tashiro, Chika Horikawa, Yasuhiro Matsubayashi, Takaho Yamada, Kazuya Fujihara, Hirohito Sone

Journal of physical activity & health 17 ( 11 ) 1171 - 1178 2020.10

Authorship：Last author,　Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Human Kinetics

BACKGROUND: To examine the association between muscular and performance fitness (MPF) and the incidence of glaucoma. METHODS: A total of 27,051 glaucoma-free participants aged 20-87 years underwent physical fitness tests between April 2001 and March 2002. The MPF index was calculated using an age- and sex-specific summed z-score from grip strength, vertical jump, single-leg balance, forward bending, and whole-body reaction time. The participants were divided into quartiles according to the MPF index and each physical fitness test. Participants were followed up for the development of glaucoma, which was defined based on physician-diagnosed glaucoma at an annual health examination between April 2002 and March 2008. Hazard ratios for the incidence of glaucoma were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS: During follow-up, 303 participants developed glaucoma. Compared with the lowest MPF index group, hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) of developing glaucoma was 0.64 (0.46-0.89) for the highest MPF index group (P for trend = .001). Vertical jump and whole-body reaction time were associated with incident glaucoma (P for trend = .01 and <.001, respectively). There were no associations between the other physical fitness tests and the incidence of glaucoma. CONCLUSION: Higher MPF is associated with lower incidence of glaucoma.

DOI： 10.1123/jpah.2019-0660

Other Link： https://journals.humankinetics.com/downloadpdf/journals/jpah/17/11/article-p1171.xml

Diabetes mellitus and risk of new-onset and recurrent heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Reviewed International journal

Satoru Kodama, Kazuya Fujihara, Chika Horikawa, Takaaki Sato, Midori Iwanaga, Takaho Yamada, Kiminori Kato, Kenichi Watanabe, Hitoshi Shimano, Tohru Izumi, Hirohito Sone

ESC heart failure 7 ( 5 ) 2146 - 2174 2020.10

Authorship：Corresponding author Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

Despite mounting evidence of the positive relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and heart failure (HF), the entire context of the magnitude of risk for HF in relation to DM remains insufficiently understood. The principal reason is because new-onset HF (HF occurring in participants without a history of HF) and recurrent HF (HF re-occurring in patients with a history of HF) are not discriminated. This meta-analysis aims to comprehensively and separately assess the risk of new-onset and recurrent HF depending on the presence or absence of DM. We systematically searched cohort studies that examined the relationship between DM and new-onset or recurrent HF using EMBASE and MEDLINE (from 1 Jan 1950 to 28 Jul 2019). The risk ratio (RR) for HF in individuals with DM compared with those without DM was pooled with a random-effects model. Seventy-four and 38 eligible studies presented data on RRs for new-onset and recurrent HF, respectively. For new-onset HF, the pooled RR [95% confidence interval (CI)] of 69 studies that examined HF as a whole [i.e. combining HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)] was 2.14 (1.96-2.34). The large between-study heterogeneity (I2 = 99.7%, P < 0.001) was significantly explained by mean age [pooled RR (95% CI) 2.60 (2.38-2.84) for mean age < 60 years vs. pooled RR (95% CI) 1.95 (1.79-2.13) for mean age ≥ 60 years] (P < 0.001). Pooled RRs (95% CI) of seven and eight studies, respectively, that separately examined HFpEF and HFrEF risk were 2.22 (2.02-2.43) for HFpEF and 2.73 (2.71-2.75) for HFrEF. The risk magnitudes between HFpEF and HFrEF were not significantly different in studies that examined both HFpEF and HFrEF risks (P = 0.86). For recurrent HF, pooled RR (95% CI) of the 38 studies was 1.39 (1.33-1.45). The large between-study heterogeneity (I2 = 80.1%, P < 0.001) was significantly explained by the proportion of men [pooled RR (95% CI) 1.53 (1.40-1.68) for < 65% men vs. 1.32 (1.25-1.39) for ≥65% men (P = 0.01)] or the large pooled RR for studies of only participants with HFpEF [pooled RR (95% CI), 1.73 (1.32-2.26) (P = 0.002)]. Results indicate that DM is a significant risk factor for both new-onset and recurrent HF. It is suggested that the risk magnitude is large for new-onset HF especially in young populations and for recurrent HF especially in women or individuals with HFpEF. DM is associated with future HFpEF and HFrEF to the same extent.

DOI： 10.1002/ehf2.12782

Association of treatment-achieved HbA<sub>1c</sub> with incidence of coronary artery disease and severe eye disease in diabetes patients Reviewed

Hirohito Sone

Diabetes & Metabolism 46 ( 4 ) 331 - 334 2020.9

Association of treatment-achieved HbA1c with incidence of coronary artery disease and severe eye disease in diabetes patients Reviewed

M. Harada, K. Fujihara, T. Osawa, M. Yamamoto, M. Kaneko, M. Ishizawa, Y. Matsubayashi, T. Yamada, N. Yamanaka, H. Seida, S. Kodama, W. Ogawa, H. Sone

Diabetes & Metabolism 46 ( 4 ) 331 - 334 2020.9

Applications of physical performance measures to routine diabetes care for frailty prevention concept: fundamental data with grip strength, gait speed, timed chair stand speed, standing balance, and knee extension strength. Reviewed International journal

Hiroki Yokoyama, Toshihiko Shiraiwa, Mitsuyoshi Takahara, Masahiro Iwamoto, Nobuichi Kuribayashi, Takuo Nomura, Minoru Yamada, Hirohito Sone, Shin-Ichi Araki

BMJ open diabetes research & care 8 ( 1 ) 2020.9

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP

INTRODUCTION: Progression of muscle strength weakening will lead to a poor physical performance and disability. While this is particularly important in patients with diabetes, the associations of reduced muscle strength measured by grip strength with clinical features and physical performance remain unclear. We investigated clinical features and physical performance measures in association with grip strength in elderly people with diabetes in a primary care setting. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted enrolling 634 male and 323 female Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes aged 60 years or older. First, grip strength was measured and the associations of gender-specific grip strength with clinical features were evaluated. Second, in patients with a grip strength below the gender-specific median, physical performance measures, including gait speed, timed chair stand speed, knee extension strength, standing balance, and short physical performance battery scores, were investigated. Patients with and without a low performance defined by Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia were compared in terms of clinical features and physical performance measures. RESULTS: Grip strength decreased according to aging and longer duration of diabetes and was independently related to body mass index, glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), serum albumin, albuminuria, neuropathy, and stroke in male patients, and to body mass index and albuminuria in female patients. The physical performance measures became worse proportionally to a decrease in the grip strength. Patients with a low performance exhibited a significantly older age, lower grip strength and serum albumin, higher albuminuria, and poorer physical performance measures than those without. CONCLUSIONS: Reduced grip strength was associated with glycemic exposure indicators of age-related duration, HbA1c, and vascular complications. The physical performance measures became worse with decreasing grip strength. Measurements of grip strength and physical performance in patients with diabetes may help promote intervention to prevent frailty in future studies.

DOI： 10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001562

Family Support for Medical Nutritional Therapy and Dietary Intake among Japanese with Type 2 Diabetes (JDDM 56). Reviewed International journal

Chika Horikawa, Mariko Hatta, Sakiko Yoshizawa Morikawa, Yasunaga Takeda, Mizuki Takeuchi, Kazuya Fujihara, Noriko Kato, Hiroki Yokoyama, Yoshio Kurihara, Koichi Iwasaki, Shiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Maegawa, Hirohito Sone

Nutrients 12 ( 9 ) 2020.8

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between habitual dietary intake for patients with diabetes and the content of family support for medical nutritional therapy (MNT). Analyzed were 289 Japanese with type 2 diabetes (men, 58.5%; mean age, 62.0 years; mean HbA1c, 53.4 mmol/mol) who completed the Food Frequency Questionnaire and Diabetes Family Behavior Checklist (DFBC). Relationships of mean values for food group intake to DFBC responses regarding MNT were examined using multivariate analysis of covariance. Positive response to "Praise for following diet" was associated with lower sweets intake (none: 60.1 g/day; ≥once monthly: 50.9 g/day, p = 0.038) and higher seasoning intake (none: 21.6 g/day, ≥once monthly: 24.1 g/day, p = 0.046). Energy intake was higher with positive responses to "Eat at the same time that you do" (none: 1636 kcal/day, ≥once monthly: 1818 kcal/day, p = 0.038). "Nags about not following diet" was associated with higher fish (none: 68.7 g/day, ≥once monthly: 78.7 g/day, p = 0.042) and salt intake (none: 8.3 g/day, ≥once monthly: 9.0 g/day, p = 0.014). Eating foods not part of the diabetic diet (none: 218.4 g/day, ≥once monthly: 246.9 g/day, p = 0.014) resulted in a higher vegetable intake. In females, significant differences in relationships in the overall analysis were reversed. Our results clarified relationships between types of family support of patients with type 2 diabetes and their dietary intake and the importance of sex differences for more effective MNT.

DOI： 10.3390/nu12092649

Successful Treatment with Edoxaban for Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Case of Aortic Dissection Complicated with Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura. Reviewed

Shun Uemura, Hironori Kobayashi, Yoshinobu Seki, Yuki Okoshi, Hirohito Sone, Nobuhiko Nomoto

Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 59 ( 16 ) 2035 - 2039 2020.8

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized for exacerbation of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) from old aortic dissection. Initially, we increased the dose of prednisolone for ITP. However, her bleeding tendency caused by DIC worsened despite the rapid recovery of her platelet count, and the required amount of fresh-frozen plasma for transfusion increased. The administration of edoxaban for atrial fibrillation led to the marked improvement of her DIC status without serious adverse events. This case suggests that a direct oral anticoagulant may be an effective treatment for DIC caused by aortic dissection.

DOI： 10.2169/internalmedicine.4255-19

Influence of an SGLT2 inhibitor, tofogliflozin, on the resting heart rate in relation to adipose tissue insulin resistance

T. Nojima, Y. Matsubayashi, A. Yoshida, H. Suganami, T. Abe, M. Ishizawa, K. Fujihara, S. Tanaka, K. Kaku, H. Sone

Diabetic Medicine 2020.8

1型糖尿病に対して膵腎同時移植を施行し透析およびインスリンを離脱した1例

岸裕太郎, 竹内亮, 山本正彦, 松林泰弘, 藤原和哉, 岩永みどり, 山田高穂, 曽根博仁, 三浦宏平, 小林隆, 若井俊文

糖尿病 63 ( 8 ) 558 - 558 2020.8

ガイドラインからみた糖尿病の食事療法における課題高齢者糖尿病の食事療法

荒木厚, 大村卓也, 山岡巧弥, 田村嘉章, 曽根博仁

糖尿病 63 ( Suppl.1 ) S - 83 2020.8

Brain adaptations of insulin signaling kinases, GLUT 3, p-BADser155 and nitrotyrosine expression in various hypoglycemic models of mice. Reviewed International journal

Vigneshwaran Pitchaimani, Somasundaram Arumugam, Rajarajan Amirthalingam Thandavarayan, Vengadeshprabhu Karuppagounder, Mst Rejina Afrin, Remya Sreedhar, Meilei Harima, Masahiko Nakamura, Kenichi Watanabe, Satoru Kodama, Kazuya Fujihara, Hirohito Sone

Neurochemistry international 137 104745 - 104745 2020.7

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: Insulin-induced moderate or severe hypoglycemia (MH or SH) impairs cognition and SH causes neuronal death. On the contrary, alternate day fasting (ADF) protects the brain during excitotoxic stress and improves cognitive function. Unlike the scenario in the periphery, insulin and its relationship towards brain glucose uptake and metabolism are considered to be less significant. Yet, the hypoglycemia associated brain metabolism is not clearly understood. The authors broadly investigated the brain metabolism in various hypoglycemic models such as insulin-induced MH, SH, SH with glucose reperfusion, 24 h fasting and ADF in the cortex or hippocampus of C57BL6/J mice. The authors analyzed the protein expression of insulin signaling kinases (plays a key role in neuronal survival and memory), Bcl-2 associated death promoter (p-BADser155) (dephosphorylation inhibits glucokinase activity and reduces glucose or increases ketone body metabolism in the brain), neuronal-specific glucose transporter 3 (GLUT 3) and nitrotyrosine (marker of nitric oxide which is involved in neuronal glucose uptake via GLUT 3) using western blotting analysis. RESULTS: Insulin-induced MH or SH differentially regulated the brain insulin signaling kinases. The expression of p-BADser155 decreased in all hypoglycemic models except the insulin-induced MH in hippocampus. The trended higher GLUT 3 and increased nitrotyrosine expression of insulin-induced SH were restored after glucose reperfusion. The trended higher or increased GLUT 3 and nitrotyrosine expression of ADF were positively correlated with serum beta-hydroxybutyrate levels. CONCLUSION: During hypoglycemia, it can be suggested that the brain might decrease glucose metabolism via glycolysis or prefer ketone body metabolism (except the insulin-induced MH in hippocampus) by modifying the p-BADser155 expression. In addition to the ketone body metabolism, the brain might adapt to uptake glucose in insulin-induced SH or ADF by modifying the GLUT 3 or nitrotyrosine expression.

DOI： 10.1016/j.neuint.2020.104745

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis associated with myelodysplastic syndrome

Akane Kaihatsu, Kyoko Fuse, Hirohito Sone, Masayoshi Masuko

eJHaem 1 ( 1 ) 12 - 13 2020.7

Prevention of postprandial hypotension-related syncope by caffeine in a patient with long-standing diabetes mellitus. Reviewed

Kazuo Furukawa, Tatsuro Suzuki, Hajime Ishiguro, Hiroshi Morikawa, Keiko Sonoda, Kenichi Iijima, Masahiro Ito, Osamu Hanyu, Hirohito Sone

Endocrine journal 67 ( 6 ) 585 - 592 2020.6

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Japan Endocrine Society

A 74-year-old man who had type 2 diabetes mellitus of a duration of 20 years was admitted for syncope after eating a high carbohydrate meal. Although he had had episodes of pallor or syncope after carbohydrate-rich meals, such as with large amounts of white rice, several times within a year and he had been taken to hospitals emergently, the etiology of these episodes had remained unclear despite his undergoing several studies. Studies did show severe orthostatic hypotension during the head-up tilt test and a decrease in the coefficient of variation of the R-R interval (CVR-R) on resting electrocardiogram, suggesting severe autonomic nervous dysfunction. Because of the episodes of syncope after eating a carbohydrate-rich meal, we investigated whether he had postprandial hypotension (PPH). The 75 g oral glucose tolerance test revealed a significant decrease in his postprandial blood pressure by about 40 mmHg, leading to the diagnosis of PPH. The carbohydrate-rich meal test induced syncope with systolic blood pressure under 40 mmHg. Then 150 mg caffeine was administered before a second carbohydrate-rich meal. The marked decline in postprandial blood pressure was suppressed and plasma noradrenaline levels were gradually increased over a period of 60 minutes. Caffeine could be useful for prevention of postprandial hypotension-related syncope.

DOI： 10.1507/endocrj.EJ19-0370